Senior Product Designer

About the Role Apollo.io is seeking a Senior Product Designer who is deeply AI-native in how they work and how they design. Product Designers at Apollo are trusted partners in shaping strategy, driving experimentation, and creating intuitive, user-centric experiences that deliver measurable impact. This role will be part of squads and will initially focus on Apollo's Extension and Settings surfaces, bringing a higher bar of quality and intentionality to how users interact with Apollo outside the core web app. We're looking for someone who brings an AI-first approach to both craft and the experiences they create, using AI to move faster while designing for trust, transparency, and user control. What You'll Do

• Design intuitive, explainable, and user-centered experiences that integrate seamlessly into Apollo's product ecosystem, surfacing contextual intelligence, automation, and LLM-driven experiences in ways users can understand and trust.
• Collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists to understand model capabilities, limitations, and optimal UX patterns and translate that understanding into clear interaction models that balance automation with user control.
• Lead design for the Extension and Admin surfaces, ensuring they meet a high bar of quality, coherence, and utility across the diverse contexts where users encounter Apollo.
• Use AI tools aggressively in your own workflow for ideation, rapid prototyping, research synthesis, and iteration and help raise the bar for how the team uses them.
• Partner with PMs, Engineers, and Analysts to identify user needs, pain points, and opportunities through research, data, and experimentation.
• Design for scale and consistency by contributing to and building upon Apollo's cross-surface design system in Figma.
• Prototype, test, and iterate rapidly, using user feedback and behavioral data to validate solutions and drive toward the best experience — not just a defensible one.
• Collaborate with your squad during Weekly Sprint Planning and Daily Standups to ensure the highest-quality experience is being built, and conduct design QA to close the gap between spec and ship.
• Collaborate with other Designers to provide feedback, share best practices, and maintain a cohesive experience across the product.
• Advocate for the user through interviews, usability tests, and behavioral analytics and triangulate across signals to form well-grounded points of view. What We're Looking For
• 6+ years of experience designing and shipping complex web-based products founded in data and customer insights.
• You work in an AI-first way. You use LLMs, AI-assisted prototyping tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar), and generative workflows as a normal part of how you work — not occasionally, but daily.
• Experience designing AI-powered features — conversational interfaces, recommendation systems, agentic workflows, or generative AI applications with a nuanced understanding of how to design for trust, transparency, and appropriate user control.
• Strong discernment: you can evaluate AI-generated output critically, identify what's wrong or missing, and know when to accept, redirect, or discard a direction. You are the editorial layer that makes AI useful.
• You have expert design instincts and best-practice knowledge to translate user problems, business objectives, and technical constraints into excellent product experiences and you can do it quickly without sacrificing quality.
• You're a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can work across multiple projects simultaneously, and brings genuine ownership to your work.
• You have experience creating and maintaining components across multiple product surfaces in Figma, and generative AI design tools.
• You are a voracious learner — continuously learning how to improve customer experience, drive core metrics, and get the most out of modern design tools and AI capabilities.
• You're experimentation-oriented: able to conduct user interviews, form hypotheses, test with prototypes or live experiments, and iterate on what you learn.
• You have a passion for typography and copywriting, and know how to write simple, compelling microcopy that supports your UI design.
• You think in systems — across surfaces, states, and user journeys — not just screens.
• No big ego.
• We uphold strong rhythms within our PM, Engineering, and Design squads because everyone has respect for each other and a shared understanding of Apollo's go